New Medical Evidence

[Globalti]

I've just had a post deleted because I used a mildly perjorative word to describe a Spanish gentleman and somebody complained.

Yet here's a post about a really unpleasant disease that affects millions of sufferers and their carers; my Mum cared for my Dad as he died with Alzheimer's for over ten distressing years and the stress took a heavy toll on her own mental and physical health, so I don't find it a laughing matter at all. But I'm not about to complain because that would be small-minded.

 

[PBancroft]

It was a joke I heard on Mock the Week.

I have lost a close reletaive to the illness so know all to well the affect it has.

After all is said and done, it's a joke.

I think it depends on what a reader expects from a given situation.

If I'm watching Mock the Week, I'll expect a certain amount of crude humour and to be offended at least once (heck, I'd be a bit disappointed if I wasn't). If I'm having a cuppa on Saturday morning whilst reading CC, I'd expect witty banter and a few interesting debates. Maybe that makes me wrong for expecting the wrong thing.

 

[Bromptonaut]

Quite interesting how this thread splits those who've had contact with Alzheimer's.

The mother out law presently in a care home with it - happy enough but utterly bewildered if taken out. My grandmother died with it and it may have been some form of fast developing dementia that got my father. But I found the joke mildly amusing.

 

[2Loose]

+1 Bromptonaut & Hilldodger.
Both of my fathers parents suffered with it for their final years. It was horrid to go through as a grandchild when your favourite Granparent's stop knowing who you are, but I can still recognise a joke as a joke.

 

[Globalti]

+1 Bromptonaut & Hilldodger.
Both of my fathers parents suffered with it for their final years. It was horrid to go through as a grandchild when your favourite Granparent's stop knowing who you are, but I can still recognise a joke as a joke.

Absolutely.

 

[Hover Fly]

When ma had Parkinson's disease the local Parkie's society had a coffee morning. When the nurse asked ma if she wanted to go, ma said "No thanks, all those rattling cups and spoons, do you want to deafen me."

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Yes indeed it is certainly a horrid condition. One way to deal with same is to retain a sense of humour.

My better half is partially deaf. So we sometimes say "pardon" when she speaks. Otherwise the "pardons" exclusively from her get somewhat stressful. She sees the joke.

 

[Shaun]

I'm going to lock the thread for now whilst I discuss it with the moderating team.